On Campus
by Tyrone Taborn
FAMU/FSU ENGINEERING SCHOOL, SPELMAN PHDS, AND MORE
ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY OFFERS NEW
ENGINEERING PROGRAMS
In the fall semester of 2008,
Dr. Trent Montgomery, dean of
Alabama A&M University School
of Engineering and Technology
unveiled two new programs. Now
students can earn a BS degree in
construction management through
the school’s technology depart-
ment, or a master of engineering
degree through its three engineering departments. The con-
struction management program prepares graduates to engage in
large-scale building projects. The master of engineering program
Multidisciplinary teams of FA M U/FSU students work on a hovercraft for the
is a multi-disciplinary program to prepare students for jobs in
annual design competition. Photo by Trisha Radulovich.
Northern Alabama. The program is built on courses in life-cycle
design engineering, product assurance engineering, analysis and
FAMU/FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING TO STAY
simulation methods, and test and evaluation engineering.
UNITED
In December, the Florida A&M University board of trust-
NORTH CAROLIINA A&T GETS FUNDED TO CREATE
ees defeated a proposal to split the Florida A&M-Florida State
POWER FROM TRASH
College of Engineering. Instead, the school’s focus will be on
getting the engineering college reaccredited in 2009, increas-
An agricultural engineering professor has received
ing enrollment and promoting a pre-engineering program. The
$770,000 in Department of Defense funding to improve energy
FAMU-FSU relationship is the only partnership between a
security and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. The project
HBCU engineering program and a majority engineering pro-
under Abolghasem Shahbazi, the director of A&T’s biological
gram in the United States.
engineering program, concentrates on recycling used oil from
the Fort Bragg military base cafeteria, and the use of wood resi-
due from wood lots and construction on the base.
GEORGIA HBCUS MAYBE FORCED TO MERGE
If a member of Georgia State Senate’s Higher Education
SPELMAN LEADS ATLANTA IN PRODUCING
Committee gets his way, two HBCUs may merge with nearby
AFRICAN AMERICAN PHDS
mostly white institutions that began as segregation schools.
Proponents of the idea say a union will save money and create
From 1997
economies of scale. The mergers in question would be between
to 2006, The
predominantly black Savannah State University and Armstrong
National Sci-
Atlantic State University, and historically black Albany State
ence Foundation
University and Darton College in Albany. Chancellor Erroll
reports that the
Davis, the fi rst permanent black leader of the University System
private, under-
of Georgia and the 1988 Black Engineer of the Year, told law-
graduate school
makers that supporters of the black schools nationwide would
for black women,
likely oppose the merger proposal. Each school has built up
with an enrollment of 2,200, sent 150 students on to PhD
alumni and community support during the past several decades,
degrees in science and engineering. The only other undergradu-
making a merger a diffi cult sell, Davis says.
ate program in the country that surpassed Spelman in preparing
PhD candidates was coed Howard University. Spelman had 224
grads pursue PhDs. Howard has about 7,000 undergraduates.
MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY TO STUDY ALCOHOL-
Lily McNair, Spelman’s associate provost of research told the
IMPAIRED DRIVERS
Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper that the historically
The Maryland State Highway Administration has com- black college “really shatters many of our ideas about women
missioned Morgan State University to study alcohol-impaired in science and math and black women in science and math in
drivers in Maryland in an attempt to understand the personal, particular.”
household, and social attributes of alcohol-impaired drivers.
http://www.blackengineer.com
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